Douglas Flora: There is no disease more devastating than hunger
Douglas Flora, Executive Medical Director of Young Family Cancer Center at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, posted on LinkedIn:
” ‘There is no disease more devastating than hunger, for what disease is there that gnaws at the body from within, that strips a man of his strength, his dignity, and finally, his will to live?’ – Plutarch.
Plutarch was right. There is no disease more devastating than hunger. Cancer is cruel. It is a thief of time, a dismantler of futures. It steals birthdays, graduations, retirements, and quiet mornings at the kitchen table. It is ruthless in its demands. But hunger is a cruelty of our own making.
It is not an inevitability, not an unchangeable force of nature. Hunger is a policy failure, a moral failure, and a collective failure of will. And unlike cancer, we already know how to cure it.
We cannot let patients fight their disease while starving in silence. We cannot claim to offer ‘comprehensive’ cancer care while ignoring the most fundamental human need. Food is medicine. Food is survival. Food is dignity.
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